"Romance depends not just on desire and affection but also on isolation from the claims of everyday life. It is on thi…"

"Shakespeare, from his very first experiment in the genre, conceived of the love comedy—the romantic comedy—as of some…"

"Even though I enjoy Hollywood romantic comedies like Notting Hill, it’s like they wear galoshes compared to the sly w…"

"Romantic comedy was reborn in the films of the 1930s and ’40s. The distinction between a romantic comedy and the mode…"

"Today it’s no secret that movie studios release blockbuster action films to meet the higher energy levels of summer a…"

"Whether or not the artistic quality of the bullfight outweighs the moral question of the animals’ suffering is someth…"

"There is an image I will never lose, much as I wish I could. It is of a man standing with half his face held in his r…"

"The crowd are on their feet, stamping and cheering, but El Cid just stands and stares at the bull in grave silence, h…"

"What you are interested in is the art whereby a man using no tricks reduces a raging bull to his dimensions, and this…"

"At the first bullfight I ever went to I expected to be horrified and perhaps sickened by what I had been told would h…"